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I really loved this.\u00a0 Wickedly entertaining, highly readable.\u00a0 Funny and tragic and excellent.\u00a0 I\u2019ve bought all her books at Iliad\u2026.\u00a0\u00a0 Barnes and Noble had nothing.<\/p>\n
Tom Wolfe\u2019s take down of Noam Chomsky\u2019s apparently utterly worthless theories about the beginnings of language in homo sapiens.\u00a0\u00a0 Funny and elegantly done.\u00a0\u00a0 For a while Chomsky\u2019s politically correct thesis was untouchable, now it appears no one knows anything at all about the beginnings of language.\u00a0 I did just read a piece on line about Bonobos and Chimpanzees, which suggests that gesture is the beginning of language and this seems a very promising place to begin the search for this defining distinction between man and animals, though always remembering that the apes are animals, that birds talk and that trees communicate.<\/p>\n
An almost satirical look at the fuck ups still fighting the previous war, and the constant war amongst bureaucrats.\u00a0 Three innocents caught up in this tale, only one survives.\u00a0 Smiley appears trying to help a hopeless cause.\u00a0 First published in 1965.\u00a0\u00a0 Very fine.<\/p>\n
The third novel from the Hogarth Press from major writers adapting Shakespeare.\u00a0 I\u2019m not convinced it\u2019s a good idea.\u00a0\u00a0 This is successful until almost the end and the character of Dunbar is a finely drawn Lear businessman incarcerated in a mental home\u00a0 by his evil daughters.\u00a0 The trouble is there is no room for manoeuvre in the plots.\u00a0\u00a0 You know what is to happen.\u00a0 And a novel is not a play.\u00a0 He is the finest of our young writers and he got me till almost the end.\u00a0\u00a0 But then more questions were raised than answered and they were interesting questions because he had created interesting versions of the evil sisters, but the play was over so the novel had to be.\u00a0 I found this same limitation in the excellent Jeanette Winterson\u2019s Winter\u2019s Tale and now that I understand the premise I understand why Howard Jacobson\u2019s Shylock also fell away.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure first rate writers should be assigned to second rate publishing ideas.\u00a0 I bet that a good TV writer might do a better job.\u00a0\u00a0 Just saying.\u00a0 All three of these authors seem to have been constrained by the premise.\u00a0\u00a0 Now I see John Banville is finishing Henry James\u2019 books.\u00a0 Please authors write your own stuff, no matter what the advance\u2026.<\/p>\n
This is his first novel?\u00a0\u00a0 It is certainly his first Smiley novel.\u00a0 It is more of a detective story with a spy setting, which is how he finds his feet I think.\u00a0\u00a0 I liked it very much.\u00a0 The mystery call is the plot on which everything turns.\u00a0\u00a0 Finely worked out, elegantly told, it\u2019s the beginning of the tale of Smiley, his failed marriage to Lady Ann and her early exploits before she returns to him.\u00a0 Shows Smiley\u2019s struggle with the bureaucracy of the spying world and how he works well with characters like Mendel.\u00a0 Grand stuff.<\/p>\n
Continuing to re-read this eloquent history of the Napoleonic period from the British perspective.\u00a0 I began half way through at Waterloo.\u00a0 He writes so thoughtfully and then of the period after the war where the Industrial miracle changed the face of England and English society.\u00a0 As always thought provoking and gripping.\u00a0\u00a0 Will resume next time I\u2019m in that place.\u00a0 Meanwhile will search Iliad for more of his work as he seems to have gone out of fashion and nothing is in print.<\/p>\n
A wonderful book. A series of tales really as Smiley is invited back by Ned to talk to the graduating class at Sarrat.\u00a0 During his speech which forms the framework of the book he reminisces about some episodes and leads Ned into remembering or questioning certain good or dubious things that happened over his lifetime in the Service.\u00a0 It\u2019s a valedictorum for both of them, since they are both shortly to retire.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s about the sadness of leaving the Service and passing it on to a questionable world which has lost the black and white certainties of the Cold War, and which leaves behind the questions what have we become, who are the real victors, and what do we stand for now?\u00a0 Questions which have only become even harder to answer since this book was written during Glasnost and it seemed at the time like The Russia House were friends.\u00a0 It\u2019s an exquisite read.<\/p>\n
I found this sadly discarded on my shelves in France and picked it up again.\u00a0 I had done it a severe injustice.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s not a perfect book but it is highly readable.\u00a0\u00a0 I picked up again and found that what I thought was a book about L Ron Hubbard and Crowley and some slightly naive folks in Pasadena was a far more complex book about the puzzling flight of Rudolph Hess to Scotland.\u00a0 Was he lured or was he pushed?\u00a0\u00a0 Since the deputy leader of Nazi Germany flew solo to Scotland to the Duke of Hamilton\u2019s Estate only six weeks before Hitler\u2019s invasion of Russia which would take place crazily on the same day as Napoleon invaded and inevitably with the same result, Stalin certainly believed the British knew about it and didn\u2019t warn him.\u00a0 He had had several warnings and ignored them anyway and retired to bed for three weeks when Hitler turned on him.\u00a0\u00a0 Hess wished to prevent Germany fighting a war on two fronts and wanted to reach out to Churchill for an armistice.\u00a0 Whether he did that on his own initiative or was in a situation of plausible deniability is uncertain, what is certain is he never reached Churchill or Hamilton and spent the rest of his life imprisoned and either faking memory loss or being mad. He was the last to die in Spandau and according to this by suicide.\u00a0 Interwoven with this are three or four stories and some real people including Ian Fleming.\u00a0\u00a0 I very much enjoyed it and was so glad I picked it up again.\u00a0 Reminding me of the entirely new adage that there\u2019s nothing wrong with the book it\u2019s the bloody readers\u2026<\/em>\u00a0 (c) E.Idle 18th<\/sup> October 17 2017.)<\/p>\n More wonderful tales from the world of Carver.\u00a0 Can\u2019t go wrong if it\u2019s a short story last thing at night you\u2019re needing.<\/p>\n Even though I\u2019m pretty sure I read this before I was just as gripped by the story of Maigret, in the absence of Madame, taking a room in a boarding house with an over confident Proprietor to try and figure out who shot, but fortunately didn\u2019t kill Janvier in a quiet street where they were watching for someone else.<\/p>\n Again re-reading John McPhee\u2019s entirely wonderful tale of the unlikely geological assemblage of California.<\/p>\n Praise from Philip Roth is about as good as it gets, I couldn\u2019t wait to read it and it was excellent as promised.\u00a0 I followed up on Kindle with<\/p>\n But didn\u2019t find it so compelling.\u00a0 An earlier work of course.\u00a0 Get the first.\u00a0 She\u2019s good.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I bought this his latest in NY and loved it of course.\u00a0 This time Peter Guillam is hauled out of retirement and confronted with some issues over Alec Leamas, the anti-hero of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold.\u00a0 That was perfect timing for me as I had just watched the movie again, set against the bleak wall of Checkpoint Charlie with Richard Burton\u2019s dead-on performance of a burned out spy, unfortunately let down by his love for the idealistic communist Claire Bloom. This long ago episode involving who was really betraying whom has left some questions.\u00a0\u00a0 Smiley helps him solve who was on who\u2019s side after the ambivalence of almost fifty years.\u00a0 I could read it again now.<\/p>\n I saved up for my travels and sneakily took away with me this latest thriller from Thomas Perry and I found myself a little concerned about reading it at night, it is that gripping.\u00a0\u00a0 I don\u2019t think it\u2019s published until January and the only problem with the author slipping you an early copy is you have to wait even longer for the next one.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is about a frightening bomb maker who takes on, and murders, the LA bomb squad.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to think where we are going these days, but every street and every incident seems for real.<\/p>\n As if it wasn\u2019t bad enough his wife has also written another perfect book<\/p>\n This is the third in her hopefully continuing series of a dead man and a dead dog.\u00a0 I enjoyed this one even more.\u00a0 Hard to solve or prevent crime when you are dead and that\u2019s the brilliant originality of these books. Charles Stone, helped by the dog Rose tries to prevent someone murdering his late wife in LA.\u00a0 Starts with a bang and goes on surprising.\u00a0 Highly enjoyable and unique and there must be something in the water in the Perry household.\u00a0\u00a0 Oh and I was surprised to see myself quoted in one of the epithets that begin the chapters.<\/p>\n A woman he arrested years before, who teased him then by appearing naked returns to his life to help him solve a crime.<\/p>\n Simple, elegant and eloquent.\u00a0 Steve tells the tale of how he became a comedian.\u00a0\u00a0 And then stopped.\u00a0 Fun to re-read this classic.<\/p>\n I\u2019m still dipping into this and finding new and surprising delights.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s not a book you can read straight through.\u00a0 It has such mind boggling facts that it is worth keeping by the bedside to dip into.<\/p>\n Another goodie.\u00a0\u00a0 From 1969, though the translation in this Book Club edition was 1971.\u00a0\u00a0 He is quite easy to find in second hand book shops, since he sold so well.\u00a0\u00a0 Worth it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I had such a nice time re-reading A Delicate Truth <\/em>\u00a0that I plucked this one off the shelf to re-read.\u00a0 Interestingly, and thanks to my book diary, I found I stopped reading at exactly the same point, about half way through, when I realised that the missing person he is describing, and whom he seeks, is actually an asshole.\u00a0 \u00a0Fortunately for me his new novel arrived from Amazon, and I bought a nice edition of Call for the Dead.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>I have a feeling that it is the interim novels, after the Smiley world and before he gets into his later stride about the world of arms dealing, that the books aren\u2019t quite so forceful, but I have to read further to pursue this theory.<\/p>\n I\u2019m sorry I think this is fraudulent.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I became uncomfortable reading Rules of Civility <\/em>and after a while this book gave me the same discomfort.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that he can\u2019t write, he can, and well, it\u2019s that this is pastiche.\u00a0 <\/em>The characters come from another place, and, indeed, book.\u00a0 It\u2019s parody without comedy.\u00a0 Or context.\u00a0 So I\u2019m sorry, and I know there are many people who read and enjoy him without noticing that this character is from War and Peace<\/em> and this one is from Eloise at The Plaza, <\/em>but it makes me feel practised on.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n His books are like a steel trap.\u00a0 People seem to be wandering around, many disconnected characters, and then suddenly the pace increases, connections are made, often violence explodes, and there it all is.\u00a0 Everything is connected.\u00a0\u00a0 This one, a first edition from March 1965, is a perfect example of this method.<\/p>\n These Idle hands love it.\u00a0\u00a0 I love everything he writes.\u00a0 I once came face to face with him in St. Paul de Vence.\u00a0 That unforgettable face.\u00a0\u00a0 Those eyes.\u00a0 What a genius.<\/p>\n Another impeccable book from this master, what? essayist I guess.\u00a0 His particular genius is not only to write about what fascinates him, and he is clearly a fascinating man, but connecting disparate subjects and considering what they might have in common.\u00a0\u00a0 In this collection of essays from the New Yorker he writes about legendary Pitchmen, ketchup, sportspeople who choke, early and late bloomers, Cesar Millan, the paradoxes of plagiarism, homelessness, criminal profiling, etc etc The range of his interests are seemingly endless and he is always fascinating, and illuminating about everything that catches his attention.<\/p>\n Le Carr\u00e9 is perfect for jet lag, and I don\u2019t mean that in a rude way that it helps you sleep, but the exact opposite: that you are happy to be awake all night because reading is such a pleasure. I enjoyed this one more on this my second read, and even more than The Night Manager<\/em>.\u00a0 It is cleverly constructed and tight and told from two different viewpoints.\u00a0 You can see his new target becoming not the old Cold War warriors but the modern cynical arms dealers, without any side but their own.\u00a0 Greed is the great modern sin, and combined with business efficiency he again targets the merchants of death.\u00a0\u00a0 Excellent.\u00a0 I have downloaded a ton onto my Kindle for future travels.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a reason this novel has sold continuously since it was first published in 1941: it\u2019s very good.\u00a0 He also has identified a then new type of American, Sammy Glick, the boy from the Ghetto who has learned to survive on his own wits and his own hutzpah.\u00a0 Unfortunately that which lifts you up may also bring you down, which is what makes this book such a satisfactorily moral tale, \u00a0told through the eyes of Al Mannheim, who is, like everyone else in the book, used by Sammy Glick, but somehow retains an interest in him, through an interest in the question that makes the title of the book a recurring theme, what makes Sammy run?\u00a0 <\/em>In the end, by returning to his roots he has the best view of the true answer.<\/p>\n A collection of nine stories from the forties and fifties, only one of which Maigret in Retirement<\/em> I had read before, and then was just as confounded by the outcome.\u00a0\u00a0 All are great.\u00a0\u00a0 Seven Little Crosses in a Notebook, Maigret and the Surly Inspector, The Evidence of the Altar Boy, The Most Obstinate Customer in the World, Death of a Nobody, Sale by Auction, The Man in the Street, <\/em>as well as the title track.<\/p>\n Highly recommended from some magazine, I found this to be not so important as suggested and not so unputdownable, so I put it down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October Sin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Josephine Hart I really loved this.\u00a0 Wickedly entertaining, highly readable.\u00a0 Funny and tragic and excellent.\u00a0 I\u2019ve bought all her books at Iliad\u2026.\u00a0\u00a0 Barnes and Noble had nothing. The Kingdom of Speech\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tom Wolfe Tom Wolfe\u2019s take down of Noam Chomsky\u2019s apparently utterly worthless theories about the beginnings of language in homo sapiens.\u00a0\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Elephant\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Raymond Carver<\/h3>\n
Maigret Takes a Room\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Georges Simenon<\/h3>\n
Assembling California\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 John McPhee<\/h3>\n
Forest Dark\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nicole Krauss<\/h3>\n
The History of Love\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nicole Krauss<\/h3>\n
September<\/h1>\n
A Legacy of Spies\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 John Le Carr\u00e9<\/h3>\n
The Bomb Maker\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thomas Perry<\/h3>\n
Dead is Good\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jo Perry<\/h3>\n
Maigret and The Tall Woman\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Georges Simenon<\/h3>\n
Born Standing Up\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Steve Martin<\/h3>\n
The Hidden Life of Trees\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Peter Wohlleben<\/h3>\n
Maigret and the Killer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Georges Simenon<\/h3>\n
August<\/h1>\n
Absolute Friends\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 John Le Carr\u00e9<\/h3>\n
A Gentleman in Moscow\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Amor Towles<\/h3>\n
Maigret Bides His Time\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Georges Simenon<\/h3>\n
The Devil finds Work\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 James Baldwin<\/h3>\n
What The Dog Saw\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Malcolm Gladwell<\/h3>\n
A Delicate Truth\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 John Le Carr\u00e9<\/h3>\n
What Makes Sammy Run?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Budd Schulberg<\/h3>\n
Maigret\u2019s Christmas\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Georges Simenon<\/h3>\n
Conversations with Friends\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sally Rooney<\/h3>\n